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6.9Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
Cast
- Miles Teller as David Packouz
- Jonah Hill as Efraim Diveroli
- Ana de Armas as Iz
- Bradley Cooper as Henry Girard
- Kevin Pollak as Ralph Slutzky
- Patrick St. Esprit as Captain Phillip Santos
Themes
- corruption
- smuggling (contraband)
- iraq
- rise and fall
- drugs
- american exceptionalism
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
294,013 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
62%
Metacritic
57/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Biography, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Todd Phillips
- Screenplay by
- Stephen Chin Todd Phillips Jason Smilovic
- Based on
- "Arms and the Dudes", by Guy Lawson
- Produced by
- Mark Gordon Todd Phillips Bradley Cooper
- Starring
- Jonah Hill Miles Teller Ana de Armas Bradley Cooper
- Cinematography
- Lawrence Sher
- Edited by
- Jeff Groth
- Music by
- Cliff Martinez
- Production companies
- RatPac-Dune Entertainment Joint Effort The Mark Gordon Company
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- August 3, 2016 ( 2016-08-03 ) ( New York City ) August 19, 2016 ( 2016-08-19 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 114 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $40 million
- Box office
- $86.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Todd Phillips
- Screenwriter
- Jason Smilovic
- Cast member
- Dan Bilzerian
- Composer
- Cliff Martinez
- Producer
- Mark Gordon
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Lawrence Sher
- Narrative location
- Afghanistan
- Filming location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 914284
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.wardogsthemovie.com
- Image
- War Dogs.png
Show 10 more facts
- publication date
- 2016-00-00
- title
- War Dogs
- distributed by
- Netflix
- costume designer
- Michael Kaplan
- capital cost
- 40000000
- different from
- Afghan War documents leak
- social media followers
- 4207
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 57/100
- working title
- Arms and the Dudes
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
War Dogs is a 2016 American black comedy crime film directed by Todd Phillips, and written by Phillips, Jason Smilovic and Stephen Chin, based on the 2011 Rolling Stone article "Arms and the Dudes" by Guy Lawson (which was later expanded into a novel, also titled Arms and the Dudes). It stars Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, and Bradley Cooper, who also produced. The film follows two arms dealers, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, who receive a U.S. Army contract to supply ammunitions for the Afghan National Army worth approximately $300 million.
The film, which features an unreliable narrator and is labeled as being "based on a true story", is heavily fictionalized and dramatized, with some of its events, such as the duo driving through Iraq, either invented or based on other events, such as Chin's own experiences. Additionally, Diveroli claimed, but later dismissed, the film was falsely marketed as a true story, and stole material from his 2016 memoir Once a Gun Runner.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “War Dogs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.